Region of Image |
Yes |
This parameter is automatically set to the current region. To change the region, close
the Import Image dialog box and select another region in the left part of the top
navigation bar. Then, you can click Import Image to re-open the Import Image dialog box and continue to configure other parameters.
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OSS Object Address |
Yes |
Paste the URL of the image object that you obtained from the OSS console. For more
information, see Share objects. Take note of the following items:
- You must use the same Alibaba Cloud account to obtain the URL of the image object
and import the image.
- The URL of the image object must be the public URL generated when you share the object
in OSS. Internal URLs provided by OSS cannot be used to import images. If you use
an internal URL to import an image, an error occurs. For information about the internal
endpoint of OSS, see Obtain the internal endpoint of OSS.
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Image Name |
Yes |
Enter a name for the custom image. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length,
and can contain letters, digits, periods (.), underscores (_), colons (:), and hyphens
(-). It must start with a letter.
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Operating System/Platform |
Yes |
- Operating System:
Select the operating system type of your image. Valid values: Windows and Linux.
If your image is a non-standard platform image, select Linux.
- Platform:
The valid values of Platform vary based on the Operating System value that you selected.
Select the operating system platform of your image.
- Valid values when Operating System is set to Windows: Windows Server 2003, Windows
Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019.
- Valid values when Operating System is set to Linux: CentOS, SUSE, openSUSE, Ubuntu,
Debian, FreeBSD, CoreOS, Aliyun, Anolis, Red Hat, Customized Linux, and Others Linux.
Submit a ticket to check whether Others Linux images can be imported.
- If the operating system of your image is a distribution customized based on the Linux
kernel, Submit a ticket.
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System Architecture |
Yes |
Select x86_64 for 64-bit operating systems, i386 for 32-bit operating systems, and arm64 for 64-bit ARM operating systems.
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System Disk Size (GiB) |
No |
Specify a system disk size. Unit: GiB. Valid values: 5 to 500. |
Image Format |
No |
Valid values: Auto-detect, RAW, QCOW2, and VHD.
- If you do not know the image format, you can select Auto-detect to allow the system
to determine the image format.
- If you want to select an image format, we recommend that you select the QCOW2 or VHD
format, which has a smaller transmission footprint.
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License Type |
No |
Select a license type to activate the source operating system after the image is imported.
Default value: Auto. Valid values:
- BYOL: the license that comes with the source operating system. If this value is selected,
make sure that your license key can be used in Alibaba Cloud.
- Aliyun: the license allocated by Alibaba Cloud. If this value is selected, a license allocated
by Alibaba Cloud is applied based on the Platform value that you selected.
- Auto: Alibaba Cloud automatically checks the source operating system and allocates a license.
If this value is selected, the system automatically checks whether a license is allocated
by Alibaba Cloud for your specified operating system platform, and then performs an
operation based on the check result.
- If a license is allocated by Alibaba Cloud for the specified operating system platform,
the system allocates the license to the imported image.
- If no license is allocated by Alibaba Cloud for the specified operating system platform,
the system switches the license type to BYOL.
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Description |
No |
Enter a description for the custom image. |
Add Data Disk Image |
No |
Select this option if you want to import an image that contains data disks. Supported
data disk capacity ranges from 5 GiB to 1,000 GiB.
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Resource Group |
No |
Specify a resource group for the custom image to simplify management. |
Tag |
No |
Add tags to the custom image. You can use tags to classify images for easy search
and batch operations.
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